Your Best Year Ever: A 5-Step Plan for Achieving Your Most Important Goals

It’s hard to get your hopes dashed if you never get them up to begin with.

Black-and-white thinking. That’s when we assume we’ve failed if we don’t achieve perfection. Reality is usually a sliding scale, not a toggle switch.

gratitude reminds us we have agency.

Catastrophizing. That’s when we assume the worst even with little evidence.2

Resources are never—and I mean never—the main challenge in achieving our dreams.

To shield ourselves from future disappointment, we develop a cynical, self-protective attitude toward life.

The first key difference between an unmet goal and personal success is the belief that it can be achieved.

no regrets.

Gratitude moves us into a place of abundance—a